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Our Family's Journey Through Time
We are happy you dropped in! We hope you find common ancestors in our 'labor of love'. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before.
We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, 'You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.'. How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say.
It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do.
It goes to
seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and
saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone
and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to
pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they
contributed to what we are today.
It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us.
It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us
birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far
back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might
remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of
their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are.
So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to
that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my
place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my
family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up
and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before.
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell
Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943.
This is
information about your family members. You can add information here
and then link to the person or you can link to a histories page. This
is an easy way to gain interest from your vistors. If they like what
they see, they'll click on the "More" button.
This is
information about your family members. You can add information here
and then link to the person or you can link to a histories page. This
is an easy way to gain interest from your vistors. If they like what
they see, they'll click on the "More" button.
This is
information about your family members. You can add information here
and then link to the person or you can link to a histories page. This
is an easy way to gain interest from your vistors. If they like what
they see, they'll click on the "More" button.
This is
information about your family members. You can add information here
and then link to the person or you can link to a histories page. This
is an easy way to gain interest from your vistors. If they like what
they see, they'll click on the "More" button.
This is information about your family members. You can add information here and then link to the person or you can link to a histories page. This is an easy way to gain interest from your vistors. If they like what they see, they'll click on the "More" button. This is information about your family members. You can add information here and then link to the person or you can link to a histories page. This is an easy way to gain interest from your vistors. If they like what they see, they'll click on the "More" button.
If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family.
